For the 21st consecutive year, CAFILM presents a selection of Oscar® submissions from around the world. This year, 85 countries submitted films for consideration in the 2025 Academy Awards® Best International Feature Film category.
For Your Consideration is a rare opportunity to see all 15 of the shortlisted films in this category, many of which are top film festival prize winners… which do you think will take home the Oscar®?
GERMANY’S SUBMISSION FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM • 2025 ACADEMY AWARDS®
“A blistering, propulsive thriller”
– The New Yorker
Shot entirely in secret, Mohammad Rasoulof’s award-winning thriller, THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG, centers on a family thrust into the public eye when Iman is appointed as an investigating judge in Tehran. As political unrest erupts in the streets, Iman realizes that his job is even more dangerous than expected, making him increasingly paranoid and distrustful, even of his own wife Najmeh and daughters Sana and Rezvan.
In Farsi with English subtitles
Director Mohammad Rasoulof (Germany 2024) 167 min.
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ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE: BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
WEDNESDAY, JAN 29 • 4:15
$14. General | $10.50 Seniors & Youth | $8.50 CAFILM members